owens and I working the 4th machine for Ritual, I was cheering on my girl, Renee who competed in her first USBC and came in 10th! I’m so proud of her. photo by twitchy.org

Road Trip to AZ (with Owens and Scott Lucey) March 2009

preparing coffee in the rental… heated water with a vac pot burner, ground coffee by hand in the Hario mill, then pour-over in the Hario V60, we had coffees from all the best at the USBC! photo by slucey

WEDDING!! March 14, 2009~Bisbee, AZ

We were married by the amazing Peter G with a small group of our friends and family, it was an amazing weekend! photo by my dad

We had our wedding reception at Octane in Atlanta during SCAA/WBC. It was a great event, thanks again to all of our sponsors! and a big thanks to Reg Barber for taking this photo and making us this awesome knock box!

Congrats again to Gwilym, our new World Barista Champ!

Owens working at Gwilym’s cart during our December visit to London

Move to LA!! (part two; from Atlanta)

IntelliVenice opening party. This happened 2 days ago, and I’m still recovering.

It was three years ago that Cafe Grumpy opened its doors to the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, and two years ago since it spread to Chelsea in Manhattan. I can’t believe it’s been so long.. Congratulations to Chris and Caroline the proud parents of these great cafes, and thank you both for taking a chance and hiring me so many years ago!

Here’s an oldie but goodie: This is a photo from the grand opening party of the Chelsea location, look at us babies. I was working for Grumpy, Chris was working for Gimme!, and Erin Meister was working for Joe the Art of Coffee back then. This was also back before any of us were married, or planning to be.. 🙂

When you live in San Francisco, it’s very easy to leave for the weekend, especially when Enterprise will rent you cars so cheaply! So, Owens and I packed a weekend bag and some snacks and headed down to LA for the weekend.

Intelligentsia’s new Venice baby will also be something to watch out for! We were escorted by the Glanville clan to see the new space, fevorishly being built out. It’s going to be amazing, beautiful, surprising, and cutting edge. So, come to the Western Regional Barista Competition hosted by Intelli!

1 full day chillin’ at albina press, coffeehouse nw, extracto, river city cycles, attempted tattoos, tacos, the bye and bye, and finding nemo on a very large hd tv

photo by Baca

2 dropped cupcakes and a morning bun followed by countless tears (yes, I really did cry after dropping the cupcakes.. another big, big thanks again to Brent and Silas who hand delivered more cupcakes to Seattle from Portland after they heard the story.)

beautiful machine at Extracto

3 more hours in the car to Seattle

lots of hugs on a convention floor, lots of questions about where we live now..